Girl Ray - Up (Official Visualiser)

Girl Ray’s new single, “Up”, the third sneak preview of their upcoming third album, Prestige, released on 4 August 2023 via Moshi Moshi: About the track, which is another refreshing slice of addictive disco-pop, the band’s guitarist and lead singer, Poppy Hankin, said: “Written at the beginning of my current relationship, “Up” deals with all the emotions of a fledgling romance: adoration, self-doubt, and everything in between! Musically we wanted to pay homage to the sparseness of Queen’s “Cool Cat”, and the groove of Bowie’s “Fame””. Prestige was co-produced by Poppy Hankin with the Grammy Award-winning producer, Ben H. Allen (, Gnarls Barkley, Christina Aguilera, Deerhunter) and takes the shambolic charm of their debut, Earl Grey (2017), and the indie-fied R&B of 2019’s Girl, and injects it with a booster shot of Hi-NRG eighties disco pop. Prestige is the sound of Girl Ray reclaiming disco music as the celebration of sexuality and outsider culture it started out as. Inspired by Pose, the television drama about New York City’s queer ballroom scene in the 80s, Prestige is an escape to a fantasy clubland, it’s dancing with your friends, it’s falling in love. In fact, the overarching narrative of Prestige is love: falling in it and being afraid of getting hurt by it; being all alone and longing for it; the tensions between what it is and what you imagined it would be. Stream the single - Pre-order the album - Follow Girl Ray -